Rock & Sling                    Summer 2008

Table of Contents

Editors' Statement

Poetry

Dewell H. Byrd
     The Visitation
Brad Davis
      In Heaven

      The Centerfielder

      Enter God
Cortney Davis
      Holy Thursday
Chris Ellery
     Meat Market in Aleppo
Brett Foster
      Contrition
Sarah J. Gardener
      Yours are the Eyes That Must Look...
Durjoy Ghosh
      Pagan

Jeff Hardin
      City Diner

      Rock Springs Road
Marc Harshman
      Advent

      Whitsun Fire
Mark Hart
      Holy Communion

Michael Henson
      The True Story of the Resurrection

David Holper

      Night Terrors

Christopher Howell

      Tale of the Attempt to Return...

      A Pearl for the Reaper

      Knowledge

Elizabeth Ann James

     Looking for Mary Magdalene

Wayne D. Knoll

      Being Vertebrate

Jenn Koiter

      Lost Sheep

Erica Lee

      Immaculate

Majorie Manwaring

      A Quiet

Nick McRae

      Finished Work

Andrew Miller

      The Three Lessons of Martha

William Orem

   St. Francis to the Birds

   The vinedresser

   Wood, shell, star

   Catechumen

Christina M. Rau

      To Mary

      Return

Mary Kay Rummel

      Sometimes What's Left is a Singing

Judith Sornberger

      Theology

Richard Spilman

      Leaving Home

Gina M. Tobasso

      Worship

Lochlanina Tobey

      Scuppernong

Kory Wells

     Lesson From John

Fiction

          D. S. Butterworth

               Over and Out

         Ryan Rodriguez

               Ode to My Socks

 

Non-Fiction

 

          Marcia Aldrich
               Return Baggage

          Arnette and Mark Chorna
               The Miracle of Eymoutiers

         Andrea Palpant Dilley

              Why Isn't God Like Eric Clapton?

         Jehanne Dubrow

              Holocaust Studies

         Anthony R. Lusvardi

              Charity

        Greg Schreur

              Craven Images: Confession ...
 

Book Reviews

          Chuck DeGroat

               The Shack

          Jonathan St. Clair

               Everything Must Change

          James Vescoci

              Religion of Peace

 

Artwork

          William Catling

               A Lifting of the Spirit to Feel ... (detail)

               Unconscious Forgetfulness

               In Silent Corridors of Death ...

               Unseen the Artist's Soul (detail)

               A Lifting of the Spirit to Feel ...

               Dark, Cold and Empty Desolation

               Prayer of Lament on the Longest Night ... (detail)

               And I go Keeping My Endless Sorrow

               The Surface of Memory

               In the Open Wound the Heart Surrenders (detail)

               In the Open Wound the Heart Surrenders

               Prayer of Lament on the Longest Night

               Unseen the Artist's Soul

Artist's Statement              

Contributors Notes

   

 

 

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